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with broadly rounded tip. Tarsus shorter than commissure, stout, 

 its sc'utellation typically ]>ycnaspidean ; middle toe, with claw, about 

 as long as tarsus, its basal phalanx wholly adherent to outer toe, 

 united for most of its length to inner toe; outer toe (without claw) 

 reaching about to base of terminal phalanx of middle toe, the inner 

 decidedly shorter; hallux, without claw, slightly shorter than inner 

 toe but much stouter, its basal pad (tylarus) much expanded and 

 flattened, with extruded inner edge continuous with that of iimer toe; 

 claws rather short and blunt, but well curved and stout. 



Plumage and coloration. — Contour- feathers broad and blended; 

 feathers of lores and frontal antia? short and dense, the former over- 

 Japping rictus; rictal bristles absent and no bristly points developed 

 except a few indistinct ones on chin and anterior portion of latero- 

 frontal antise. Adult males immaculate white, the upper parts 

 delicately shaded with pale bluish gray, especially on pileum (one 

 species with black at tip of primaries and middle rectrices) ; adult 

 females and young males plain deep brownish gray above, the wings 

 dusky or blackish, relieved hj broad white edgings, the under parts 

 paler gray, fading into whitish posteriorly. 



Nidijica tion . — Unknown . 



Range. — Honduras to western Colombia. (Three species.) 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OK CARrODECTES. 



u. General color pure white, the upper surface tinged, more or less, with ])ale l)luish 

 gray. (Adult males.) 

 b. No black on i>rimaries nor rectrices; smaller (wing 134-146 mm.). 



c. Bill bluish gray (black on culmen); back, .scapulars,, rump, and tail more 

 strongly tinged with bluish gray; primaries and priuiary coverts pale bluis]) 

 gray. (Eastern Costa Rica to Honduras.-) 



Carpodectes nitidus, iidult male (p. 788) 

 cc. Bill yellow, with black line along culmen; back, scapulars, ruTup, and tail 

 more faintly tinged with bluish gray; j)riniaries and primary coverts j)urc 

 white. (Southwestern Costa Rica and western Panama, i 



Carpodectes antonise, adult male (p. 789' 

 66. Primaries and four middle rectrices with a terminal Idack spot; larger (wing 

 161.5-171 mm.). (Western Colombia.) 



Carpodectes hopkei, adult male (extralimital) " 

 aa. Abt)ve l)rownish gray with broad white edgings on secondaries and larger wing- 

 coverts; beneath paler gray anteriorly, white posteriorly. (Adult females and 

 young. ) 

 6. iSmaller (wing 122-134 mm.); lores pale gray. 

 r. Bill bluish (blackish on culmen). 



Carpodectes nitidus, adult female and young (j). 788) 

 cc. Bill yellowish (lilackish on culmen) 



Carpodectes antoniae, adult female and >'oung (p. 789) 

 66. Larger (wing 145-152 mm.); lores white. 



Carpodectes hopkei, adult female and young (extralimital). 



^Carpodectes hoplri Berlepsch, Orn. Monatsb., v. Nov., 1897, 174 (San Jose, Rio 

 Dagua, w. Olombia; coll. Count von Berlepsch), 



